Space Issue

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Arghhhh…my c drive is 7.79GB capacity of which only 197 mb of free space is left :frowning: and i wonder why cuz i keep moving stuff to d drive which is half free…i dont know how to take care of this space issue without having to pay for more space which i dont want to :frowning:

any suggestions?

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1 . Make sure you are moving the stuff aka Cut , Paste . . . and not Copy , Paste .
2 . Remove the temporary files from your system . Use CCleaner for it .
3 . Defregment your hard drive .
4 . Use drive D to install all your programs .

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^what he said
temp files build up and can take from 100 mb to 1000 and even more.
you can also increase the partition size of C:\ but that would be tricky and may require to install the OS again so for now just stick to CCleaner or windows washer(freeware program)

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Adding to what Naman & Esix said, you can also remove Old System restore points to free up space.

Windows system's makes restore points (or shadow copies) whenever there is a system wide change (installing / uninstalling software's/drivers, deleting files etc), you need only the last restore points, not all of them.

To delete old restore points : Right Click Drive C -> Properties -> Disk Cleanup -> More Options -> System Restore -> Cleanup. Then finish the Disk Cleanup too. (Warning: this will remove all the restore points except the last one).

And always give adequate amount of Disk space for your system Partition (Min 20 Gig for Win XP, Min 30 Gig for Vista/7). Windows needs space in your system partition even if you are installing Programs in a separate partition. If you are comfortable with partitioning and all, try a free partition tool like Partition Wizard Home and resize your system partition.

P.S: i don't know why people makes so many partitions in their Hard Disks, Life will be much better if you have only one or max 2 partition.

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i just did that but it made no diff?! i dont even think it went thru...arghhh?!

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thanks. can u elaborate on point 3?

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^^ steps to "defragment" a hard drive:

open MY COMPUTER > right click first hard drive, (usually C) PROPERTIES > and out of tabs called GENERAL, TOOLS, HARDWARE, select TOOLS . defragmentation is usually second group (after ERROR CHECKING) . click DEFRAGMENT NOW.

disclaimer: i have a feeling, this is not it, leave the computer however overnight for properly doing it. use settings/options called AUTOFIX errors before you start defragging

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Thanks Confused for elaborating defragment :k:

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ok thanks alot :)

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Buy yourself a new Computer .. That has Alottttt of Space .. :D

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Arghh i just did the defragmentation but still no space allotted...n in between it said u need 2 have 15% free space in oder to have it run total smooth.

And yah i cnt afford a new comp rite now :=(

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One more thing which i usually do .. is go thru all my files ..in documents etc .. and check what you need and what you dunt need .. whats important and whats not important .. sometimes youhave files and stuff saved you once saved some years ag but never needed it again ..

or programs and software that you rarely and never really use .. get rid of em ... limit it to what you use often .. like say you got a photoshop program .. this can do alot .. so get rid of the others if there are any ..

or alternativelyy, if your lving in pak - lahore region .. go to hall road ... and you can pick up external hardrives .. 60g to 320g at very good prices .and save your important stuff on the external ..(you can get all sizes of the drive down to pocket size) ..<< My recommendation.

Good luckk :)

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how to do chkdisk option?

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maybe u installed a huge game or a big program like photoshop or similar :D

uninstall the big programs from C and install em to the other partition

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thats the absurd thing that i dont see anything "extra" on my c drive. Arghh i wl give it a check again, maybe i have gone blind :(

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Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh i m getting really frusturated now...i try n cut programmes like real player, quicktime n paste to d-drive but it says i dnt have access 2 delete those n that maybe they r in use or write protected....CRAP!!!

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Install a secondary drive. 8 GB of hard drive is nothing. Double sided DVD has more space than that.

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the thing is i have an external harddrive already bt there is nothin on c-drive that i can move there.........like i said b4 i think there r only things there that need 2 be there 2 work the windows. arghhh, y m i so computer stupid :(

lol.

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lets try a different approach... programs cant be "copy pasted" like your files/documents/word/excel/music/videos...

  1. START > SETTINGS > CONTROL PANEL (or MY COMPUTER > CONTROL PANEL).

  2. ADD OR REMOVE PROGRAMS.

  3. takes a while to load. now it will show you all programs you have installed (C or D or whatever drives they're at). it will also show you how much space they consumed, and how REGULARLY you use them/vs when you used them approximately.

  4. start cleaning up with criteria: RARELY used or u can recall you dont use it. (i have a simple formula, i do this every month, and if i havent used a program for 4-5 months, chances are, i wouldnt).

  5. report back here

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I dont think there is any permanent software solution for this problem unless you move from Windows to Linux.